Dorchester Financial Securities, Inc. v. Banco BRJ, S.A.

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• holding that courts may decide a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction on the basis of affidavits alone or may conduct an evidentiary hearing
• holding that to permit otherwise would be “inconsistent with the framework set forth in Ball [v. Metallurgie Hoboken-Overpelt, S.A., 902 F.2d 194 (2d Cir. 1990)]”
• holding that courts weighing a motion to dismiss must rely on the facts presented by the plaintiff, “notwithstanding any controverting presentation” by defendants
• holding that the court “need look no further” than the letter in which defendant “consented to ‘submit to personal jurisdiction in the City and State of New York for any claim or action arising from this transaction’” to establish personal jurisdiction
• observing that a court may consider matters outside the pleadings in a jurisdictional dispute
• explaining that at the preliminary stage before discovery, “‘the plaintiff’s prima facie showing may be established solely by allegations’” (quoting Ball v. Metallurgie Hoboken-Overpelt, S.A., 902 F.2d 194, 197 (2d Cir. 1990))

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